Foreign leaders visiting KingSalman of Saudi Arabia have noticed that there is a large flower display just in front of the 80-year-old monarch ... Of course, King Salman is not the only world leader past or present whose inability to cope has been artfully concealed by aides and courtiers ... ....
Star who sold 100m records during rich and unpredictable career found collapsed at Paisley Parkhome outside Minneapolis. A postmortem examination will take place on Friday on the body of Prince, who died at his Paisley Park home aged 57, leaving behind him a gaping hole in musical genres as diverse as R&B, rock, funk and pop ... “Yes, it’s Prince” when asked if he was with the person ... Sorry, your browser is unable to play this video ... ....
Havana, Cuba (CNN)The Cuban government said it would scrap a long-standing ban on letting people born in Cuba come to the island by cruise ship, the Communist Party newspaper Granma reported Friday. The change in policy appears to remove barriers to the first visit by a U.S. cruise ship to the island scheduled for next month. The CarnivalCruise Corp ...Obama calls for change and freedom in Cuba. JUST WATCHED ... Replay ... ....
because the Saudis didn’t want the Americans to interrogate him.“The money was from the government … what the Saudis were doing, so I’ve been told, by reasonable people (I haven’t written this) is that they were also passing along tankers of oil for the Pakistanis to resell ... They were very unhappy about the attention paid to that because they went in and it was just a hit,” Hersh said ... That was the plan,” Hersh said....
Jason Roy fell one run short of his century, but a second-wicket stand of 144 with Kumar Sangakkara...Sangakkara cruised past fifty for the 115th time in 509 List A matches and was firmly on course for his 36thcentury when he was brilliantly caught by Mitchell, diving to his left at short extra-cover but grasping the ball in his right hand, for 76....
They combined for a remarkable 36thcentury stand in international cricket together - after no other partnership in the match had passed 50 - using clever dabs, jabs and the occasional big stroke to guide their side into a 2-0 series lead ahead of the third match in Hambantota on Wednesday ... That is the 36th time these two have combined in a 100-run stand in international cricket....
To prevent them sparking a catastrophic conflict between powers, strategic misjudgments must be avoided and the folly of allies curbed. One hundred years ago World War I broke out. And in July, 120 years ago, the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895 broke out ...People should reflect on the series of wars. Statistics show that since the 36thcentury BC there have been more than 14,600 wars, which have claimed more than 3 billion lives ... ....
Lord's. Kumar Sangakkara scored his first Testcentury at Lords and his best friend, Mahela Jayawardene, said that it was an overwhelming experience for him. Sangakkara, who had just one fifty at Lords and an average of 28 in Tests, notched up his 36thcentury and went past Allan Border's tally of Test runs in the process. Speaking to The Telegraph, Jayawardene said, "I was so happy for Kumar... ....